Turnstile returned to Richmond on Wednesday, and it felt like Brown’s Island could barely contain them. The Baltimore hardcore outfit has long since broken past genre borders, crafting songs that reach across generations of music fans. Last night, they looked every...
Richmond’s legendary intergalactic overlords, GWAR, are set to honor their late founder and frontman, Dave Brockie, with a permanent monument in Hollywood Cemetery, one of the city’s most historic resting places. The unveiling will take place on Friday, August 30, at 2 PM, and fans, friends, and fellow scumdogs are invited to attend and pay their...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an absolutely essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This time around, we've got one from Infant Island, the Fredericksburg-based screamo band who is working hard to carry the torch for Virginia screamo far beyond the Commonwealth. In fact,...
On a beautiful summer evening, the sun set into arrays of pink as a sea of thousands poured into the gates. Music lovers of all sorts came together to experience a once-in-a-lifetime show. Opened by Coin, hands could be seen up in the air bumping to the beat of the music as the evening heated up. Later on in the night, headliners Young the...
FEATURED SHOWSunday, June 30, 10 PMSea Of Storms (Photo by Jake Cunningham), Doll Baby, Sharpening @ Bandito's - Free!It's been a long time since we got new material from Sea Of Storms, but the wait is finally over. Since 2015 when they released their debut album, Dead Weight, Sea Of Storms added second guitarist Nick Bergheimer, and this weekend...
With their forthcoming album on Spacebomb Records, Richmond's Sleepwalkers demonstrate their mastery over many eras of musical evolution. Having established themselves as leaders of Richmond's retro-inspired indie rock scene on their 2014 debut album, Greenwood Shade, the river city's own Sleepwalkers are back with a new album that confirms their...
Richmond thrash-core torchbrearers Enforced prepare to unleash their debut LP on an unsuspecting river city. Refining and honing their unique alloy of galloping riffs and hoarse vocals, the new record by Richmond’s premier crossover thrash outfit, Enforced, finds them sounding their most powerful. With the band’s new record At The Walls looming...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an absolutely essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This one comes to us from Hex Machine, the veteran RVA noise-rock act that brought us their excellent debut album, Fixator, back in 2012. Since then, the group has kept a somewhat low profile while...
FEATURED SHOWSunday, June 23, 7 PMToxic Moxie (Photo by David Morton), Magnus Lush, Among The Rocks And Roots @ Gallery 5 - $6 in advance/$8 day of show (order tickets HERE)One of the core principles of this-here column is as follows: local music, specifically music from Richmond, is awesome. But that's not just because our city had the fortune...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag introduces you to yet another outstanding playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This time around, we have a playlist from Richmond singer-songwriter Benjamin Shepherd, whose latest LP, Hold The Line, entered the world last month. On that album, Shepherd's introspective...
